Fake News, A.I. Deepfakes, and the Pageant of the Unreal
Psychology Today | 05.02.2026 21:47
I’ve been writing my blog Psych Unseen—about the psychology of false beliefs—for well over a decade now. Back in 2016, just before Donald Trump’s first presidency, I wrote about the concept of “truthiness” (defined by Webster’s dictioniary as “truth coming from the gut, not books; the quality of preferring concepts or facts one wishes to be true, rather than concepts of facts known to be true”) in a post called “The Death of Facts: The Emperor's New Epistemology”:
